Alice Paul: The Women's Suffrage Movement

EARLY LIFE- Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a women 's rights activist, editor, and writer. She was born on the 12th November 1815, in Johnstown, New York. She was a lawyer’s daughter and showed her desire to excel in knowledgeable and other spheres. She graduated from the Emma Willard 's Troy Female Institution in 1832. She was then pulled to the women 's rights movements through visiting her cousin, Gerrit Smith.

Gratefully, In 1851 she met some who became her lifelong best friend, Elizabeth Cady Stanton who ALSO became her co-worker in the social reform activities mostly in the fight for women 's rights. The both of them in 1863 founded “The Women 's State Temperance Society’ after they were not allowed to speak at a temperance conference because of her gender.

The pious did not want women to have the right to vote either. A clergyman asked Susan B. Anthony whether she would rather have a son of hers attend Buffalo Bill’s show on a Sunday instead of church, she replied, ”he would learn far more.” The devoutly religious did not take this very well and thought that it confirmed the “fundamental wickedness of Anthony’s suffragist movement” (Larson 286). This criticism did not stop women from later getting the right to

In her article, Suellen says “...it was somehow indecent to risk laying my family bare for the sake of Ann’s personal expression of grief.” It appears that Ann is somewhat selfish in this aspect, because she refused Suellen’s requests to find a smaller publisher or ask for no publicity. In Truth and Beauty, Ann writes about intimate conversations between her and Lucy, as can be seen in her writing: “She was completely, wretchedly miserable, but then told me after the fact it was because she had been on a huge heroin bender before she moved and decided that she would quit cold turkey when she got to Brooklyn” (page 245). If I were Lucy, I would likely imagine that because I had told her such secrets in confidence, she wouldn’t go out and share them with the world. And then, as Suellen and Ann both say in their literary works: “That was

This story relates to my family in many aspects like strong mothers, daughter’s personalities, and spoiled siblings. The first similarity between our families involves spoiled siblings. For example, Dee is the oldest daughter that Mama has. They raised money to send her off to college and after four years she finally comes back home, but different. Dee

In Asian customs it is considered inappropriate to live with a man before being married and getting your hair done at a salon was wasteful when you could do it yourself at home. Lindo didn’t approve with Waverly’s lifestyle and criticized it; since she tried her best teach Waverly about Chinese character. Whenever her mother tried to teach her, she said it was to old fashioned and never took an interest in her culture. Waverly identifies and an American, even though she has a strong Chinese

Elizabeth stayed a strong and independent woman throughout her

Luckily for him, he immigrated to England where he studied at Cambridge university. As a young child, Bronte and her four eldest sisters, were sent to the Clergy Daughters School in Cowan Bridge, Yorkshire. This school that she attended was very harsh as well as physically demanding. Her two eldest sisters developed tuberculosis and died while at this school, causing Bronte’s father to bring back Charlotte and her sister, Emily. When Charlotte returned to her town of Haworth, she was able to escape into a world of creativity and imagination.

The second organization was named the NWP, National Women’s Party which persuaded and worked with the president to also have Congress pass the Amendment of woman suffrage(Schneider 7). However, before this, the right to vote was not given to any women which pushed them to fight for their rights. This was first stated in the 15th amendment allowing everyone to vote besides women. This eventually caused the women to go crazy and start organizations to fight for them and the other women (Frost-Knappman

In October, 1903, together with her daughters, Emmeline created the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), with a permanent motto of “Deeds, not words.” The organization was so named to “emphasize its democracy” and “define its object as political rather than propagandist.” The WSPU was also composed of women from all the different classes, exclaiming that women suffrage was desired by all women. A unique aggressive militant tactics that defied the notion of ‘proper women’ was adopted, such as disrupting parliament members’ speeches, held street meetings to increase people’s awareness, and strikes.

Many women suffrage associations started to develop. For example Susan B. Anthony, she was a pioneer crusader for the woman suffrage movement in the United States and president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She was

Susan Brownell Anthony was a American social reformer and a woman 's rights activist. Anthony grew up on a politically active family when they worked on the abolitionist movement to end slavery. With Elizabeth Cady Stanton they created the National woman Suffrage Association in 1869. When Anthony died women still wasn’t able to vote 14 years after her death in1920 the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote. The U.S. Treasury Department put Anthony 's picture one dollar coins in 1979 that made her the first women to be honored.

Throughout all history women had a difficulty in gaining rights. It took a long amount of time for women's voices to be heard in all America. Determination and being fearless was a big factor for all suffragists to be heard. Alice Paul who was a fearless women is an example of who took a stand for women’s rights with full determination. The determination she had lead to major achievements for all the women in the early years and now.

Before suffrage was granted to women, a letter was sent to The New York Times. Within this letter contained an argument detailing how women should not get the right to vote. The person who wrote this held the belief that granting suffrage to women would terminate class rule and true democracy would ensue. Suffrage for women is vital to society and is something that should not be looked down upon. Having the right to vote is a right that should belong to every citizen no matter race or gender.

During the 20th Century, Native Americans, African American, and women fought for equal political and social rights. The end of World War I brought with it, a series of movements and activist fighting for equality. The war called for the help of everyone including Native Americans, African Americans and women therefore they felt more empowered to speak out against inequalities and push for equality. The 20th century saw the beginning of many organizations promoting equality such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), National Women’s Party, and the National Congress of American Indians all of which promoted equal rights by organizing rallies, participating in protests and giving powerful speeches.